October 1, 2005 CMI
Cover Story
The WHAT IF SCENARIO
CORPORATE MEETINGS & INCENTIVES: What legal considerations should groups weigh or investigate with regard to whether they will be charged cancellation...
The Price of Risk
When Katrina blew through the Gulf states, she just may have blown your budget for meeting cancellation insurance as well. James Chippendale, president...
Orkin's Exodus
On Sunday, August 29, Martha C. Craft may have been in church, but her mind and her prayers were in New Orleans. She knew that the city, bracing for the...
Upfront
Joining Together to Help
As we go to press, Hurricane Rita is roaring across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas, and there is still no clarity as to when drinking water let alone...
News & Info
The Wages of Work: MPI Releases 2005 Salary Survey
If you're in meeting planning for the money, it helps to be a guy with lots of experience working for a corporation. You probably could have guessed that...
DMC Pricing: GEP Goes Transparent
When Global Events Partners held its annual meeting this summer in pre-Katrina New Orleans, GEP Chairman and CEO Chris White made what he thought could...
Preferred Vendors: A Position Paper
A new must-read has rolled off the presses at Meeting Professionals International. The third position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence...
CIC Study Shows Meeting Industry's Economic Clout
Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the...
Meetings
Take 5
WHAT'S SPINNING ON YOUR CD PLAYER? Love Lives On, a CD my husband found for me. It's the New York City Gay Men's Chorus from around 1991. I'd had a tape...
Ethics Training Takes Hold
Not long ago, ethics training was the exception rather than the rule in corporate America. Now, the majority of companies 69 percent compared to just...
The Man of 100 Voices
Eyes closed, you'll swear you're at a live concert with Macy Gray, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Neil Young, and Sammy Davis Jr. Open your eyes, and you're...
business travel slows
A survey by Robert Half Management Resources, Menlo Park, Calif., found that 48 percent of employees travel for work less frequently than they did five...
Look Who's talking
Securing speaker agreements should be a routine part of the meeting planning process, whether the speakers are paid professionals or volunteers. These...
How to Work with Meeting Facilitators
THE GOOD NEWS: Meeting planners and facilitators both want the same thing: the success of a client's meeting. The not-so-good news: Most planners don't...
Rising Above THEIR DISABILITIES
SOME MEETING PROFESSIONALS and suppliers colleagues whom you see at conferences and cocktail parties live with chronic conditions and are constantly forced...
Everyone Needs a Proofreader
Outta Sight Travel's Jackie Hull and her husband, Gary Metzler, work as a team. Metzler is blind and uses a guide dog, while Hull is sighted but, as she...
Incentives
Big Boost Forecast for Incentives
The use of incentives across all levels of companies is on the rise, according to proprietary research by Promo magazine (www.promomagazine.com), sister...
China Becoming a Golf Destination
This group is tough to please: They love to golf, but they've done St. Andrews. And they've been around the world many times. You can bet that the opportunity...
party in a box
Have no time to create a fun, rewarding event for your staff and even less budget? Why not order a party in a box? For example, Oriental Trading's Octoberfest...
The Reward of Time
Today's employees value time as much as or more than money. In fact, 66 percent say that they would gladly give up some of their compensation in return...
SITE Joins PCMA to Help Katrina Victims
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives charged into action to help members displaced by Hurricane Katrina. This is the time when the SITE network...
Training: Work or Perk?
Each February, The Oregonian daily newspaper in Portland sends a few lucky people to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. The...
Sites
Conference Center Update
In the South Loop business district, the 18-story, $150 million UNIVERSITY CENTER CONFERENCE CHICAGO has expanded its conference facilities. Recent additions...
ON LOCATION: Hartford's Triumvirate
The Marriott Hartford Downtown officially opened in late August. It's the cornerstone of a triumvirate with the Connecticut Convention Center that opened...
Dolce properties
Dolce International has been awarded the management contract for Lakeway Inn Conference Resort in Austin, Texas, by new owners Behringer Harvard Funds...
Skytop Lodge
If you remember the Pennsylvania Poconos as an outdated collection of ski resorts and honeymoon havens, you're in for a surprise. I visited this region...
Copper Mountain Resort
With the majestic Rocky Mountains as a backdrop, Copper Mountain Resort will inspire guests with spectacular scenery. But the resort is more than breathtaking...
Last Word
relief
FREE JOB BANKS To help victims of Hurricane Katrina find new work as quickly as possible, the Travel Industry Association of America has partnered with...
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